Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students don't seem to mind Agassiz's shortcomings--some obstructed views, mediocre acoustics and limited space in the wings...
Indeed, Bradley and Gore have a lot to talk about. The two compiled a remarkably similar voting record in the Senate, and seem to differ on few substantial policy issues. But they stress very different sets of priorities. Bradley has emphasized a commitment to enact campaign finance reform, fight child poverty and improve race relations. Gore's campaign touts the vice president's plans for improving the education and health care systems...
Riding across the plains in Bradley's van, I ask him if it wouldn't be more honest--less packaged--to admit that he switched positions on ethanol in order to stay alive in Iowa. He does his best to seem offended. "What am I supposed to say," he sniffs, "'All you family farms should go bankrupt?'" The van pulls into the parking lot of Bradley's motel. "My little bit o' heaven," he says, stepping out and gathering up his papers. His staff members are staying at another motel. And so, with a little wave, he escapes again into...
...repository of our hopes and dreams." Even to a reader less self-consciously worldly and less corrosively bitter than Hodge, Purdy's tone and substance--the fact that this book is about Jedediah Purdy, and that any power in the book springs from his unshakeable convictions--may seem narcissistic; and his tendency towards moralistic aphorisms, towards a Thoreauvian epigrammatic style, seems a little bit pompous...
...gender relations might seem odd to you, but it was normal for the 1950s," she said. "There was a 'dean of women,' women had parietal rules that were different from parietal rules...